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Because I'm old and this is the Way I Do Things now...
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Jackson ran his sweaty hands over his vintage cowboy shirt hoping testosterone would iron it.
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In his dream, he was choking on an ice cube. He didn’t know what would happen first — if it would melt or he would die.
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In which Clint is sucked into a remarkably civilised but mildly deranged crime scene. There he encounters almost-blackmail, not-actually prostitution, probable-sex scandals, genuine-imposters & the very real theft of something incredibly important. Twice.
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That was the night that everything began to happen. It must have been past 3:00 a.m. when Darrell came down from the attic right into our bedroom. I lay nearly paralyzed with guilt beside my wife, trying to get to sleep. Elizabeth had staggered to bed
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There were always mocking birds around my house.
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After the shooting, they sent the boy away. He returned taller and heavier, a sulkier version of his earlier self.
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Can I really be blamed? Look at the circumstantial evidence: you wore that skirt, which can hardly be called a skirt. More like a very wide plaid belt.
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"Her actions in the city seemed invariably designed to destroy that person, which she’d worked so hard all her life to become."
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"My mother loses patience when I get sad," I said. "She tells me about the dog."
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A bride, dressed in white gown and flowing veil, totters in high heels down the uneven pavement past Simone’s Café. She holds a bouquet of red and orange chrysanthemums. Three men, wearing black tuxes, accompany her; one of them holds up the hem of her dr
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A motivational speaker I know intimately cannot abide any form of swearing.
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it seemed odd
from even the
first few seconds.
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Occupy Wall Street protestors in Boston complained that homeless people had taken coats, blankets and food donated to the fight against income inequality. “They don’t bring anything to the table,” said a spokesman at the information tent.
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304663
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This happened to me on Friday, May 3, 2002 in North Austin on the corner of North Lamar and Mulberry Street.
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Step off, dude. I have no intention of coming back to you.
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A glance—I dissolved completely.
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Let me tell you a story, child, of how your father became your father...
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She is laughing, watching me spit out a mouthful of seaweed. It's a soft kind of laugh: small gasps between small sounds of her eyes closed, curling with the corners of her mouth. Her left eye curls a little less, closes a little more than it did when she laughed a year…
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I was a peasant girl, believe me, and nothing much to look at--- close set eyes, one blue and one green, wispy brown hair and a chin that dominated every other feature of my face.
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Early reviews of Barney’s Version (the film) had prepared me for finding the book’s most amusing attributes – particularly its skewering of Quebec nationalist politics and Canadian cultural nationalism – left out. After all, turning a 417-page account of
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We do not say the phrases that would smooth things over.
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the only thing that impresses me now
is the state of my inebriation
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This is your mystery, your story Full of beauty and all-encompassing loveA brushstroke washes the canvas cleanYou start over with a new directionDreaming of me as you paint your wordsWriting just like Keats, Shelley and BrontëAbout sorrow, rain and the wheels of passion
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303400
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This morning Katie and Jimmy are learning about the potters field—the one where Judas Iscariot was buried—from their grandma.
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I’m a black and white figure--out of place in a Saturday morning cartoon.
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It's been so long since I've been in touch with any of you—if I ever was in touch with you—because my family and I took up residence in the local Wal•Mart.
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Eve is eating a plum. The plum is cold and how it got cold is sort of a mystery, but there are mysteries everywhere and the cold juice on her face doesn't really incline her to worry much about mysteries.
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I have, for example, watched Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" 117 times.
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The first flight is effortless
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